Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a guest lecture in Mike Schandorf’s “Writing for New Media” class at the University of Illinos at Chicago. I’ll be talking about Follow for Now, the philosophy behind the book, and how it all came together. If you’re around, come check it out. I’ll be speaking from 3:30 to 4:45 on Thursday, February 18th. It should be a hoot.

My friend and colleague Mike Schandorf required Follow for Now for his Writing for New Media class this semester at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He snapped this shot of the stack of copies in their bookstore. I’m stoked.
Many thanks, Schandorf. See you soonly.

Now you can get Follow for Now for your Sony Reader (or other non-Kindle eBook device) via Google Books. Their format allows you to read books on the screen of your choice.
Of course, it’s also still available for Amazon’s Kindle and, if you prefer, as a good ol’ paperback from the following fine places:

Powell’s in Portland, OR.
Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR.
Skylight in Los Angeles, CA.
Last Gasp in San Francisco, CA.
MonkeyWrench in Austin, TX.

If you are near any of these stores, support the independent: Buy my book there. If not, it’s …

My tireless publicist, Jessie Duquette, found another review of Follow for Now today. It’s on HEX Records’ website, and it goes like this:
“Follow for now, power to the people say, make a miracle. D pump the lyrical. Black is back, all in, we’re gonna win, check it out. Yeah y’all c’mon, here we go again!” Instantly those old Public Enemy lyrics came to mind upon seeing the title of this book. And to my great pleasure I discovered that this book was named after those very same words. That’s a …

David Baker over at 410 Media just posted a nice review of Follow for Now.
Here’s an excerpt:
The interviews are as far ranging as they sound. They range from Mark C. Taylor discussing The Philosophy of Culture, to media guru Douglas Rushkoff to Al Burian and the rest of Milemarker and the author Philip Dick. The cool thing is most of these interviews are by Roy Christopher so you follow along as he explores the intricacies of his own interest and in doing so makes them interesting to you. As you …

…And the one for Follow for Now. They (the deleting moderator-editor-wikiwhatevers) claim it was “just” self-promotion and that my book and I were not “notable.” Obviously, I beg to differ, but I can’t fix it myself.
If anyone else, especially the Wiki-inclined, wants to help me get back onto Wikipedia, the URLs are below. Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Christopher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_for_Now_(book)

I’ve been redesigning the Follow for Now site because I don’t have enough to do and because the old one wasn’t yellow enough.
Check it out and let me know if you see any glitches or have any suggestions. I’m just trying to make it work for both people who have the book and people who’ve never heard of it.
Also, I’d like to unload the rest of the inventory before the world goes “all-digital.”

As if you’re not sick of hearing about it yet, Follow for Now is now available on the Kindle. Now you can get all forty three interviews, all the pictures, all the goodness, in Amazon’s digital format. So, if you’ve made the jump from atoms to bits with your books, you can now add Follow for Now to your collection.
For those who don’t know, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds.
Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes …

Before you start thinking that everyone loves my book, Follow for Now (they don’t), check out Keith Rosson’s review on Razorcake. Here’s an excerpt:
There’s just not much interesting material being covered, even in the music and literature sections, which I feel a lot more comfortable with than, say, the science section. Like when Christopher interviews Milemarker—and time has still not proven to me that they were anything but a pretty boring band made up of some decent writers—and in lieu of trying to make Al Burian squirm a bit or …

Follow for Now is Dan Janal’s Cool Book of the Day today. Dan Janal runs the public relations firm PR Leads, among other things, and I am stoked to have Follow for Now on his book review site.
Many thanks to Dan and his staff over there.
Check it out.